The origin and origin of the surname, the origin and history of the surname

Surnames first originated from the name of the tribe or the name of the tribal leader. Its function is mainly to facilitate the identification of the descendants of different clans in the tribe and to facilitate intermarriage between different clans. Therefore, the birth of surnames marks the transition from group marriage to blood marriage, and is an important milestone in the progress of human civilization.

The origin of surnames can be traced back to the matriarchal clan system of primitive human society, so many of the earliest surnames in China were next to or bottom of female characters, such as the surname Yao. A surname is used as a specific symbol to distinguish a clan, such as the name of a tribe or the name of a tribal leader.

Girl, is the meaning of birth, the actual meaning of birth, because it can not be written as born, so it is written as a girl, easy for everyone to understand, ** in the name of the place of birth, generations live in a certain place, the place name is the surname, the combination of the surname is the girl, that is, the place of birth, the animal, live in a place for a long time, live in a group, are uncles and brothers, girls marry into other groups after adulthood (change to the surname of other groups), boys continue to live in this group after adulthood (still use the local place name surname)

History of surnames:

There were surnames as early as the primitive clan period. The surname originated from the female line, and the clan originated from the male line. "The surname is the bloodline, the name is the official, the place of residence, and the occupation", and now the surname is only used to indicate the family.

The explanation of the surname in the "Shuowen" is: "born of a person", "the surname is born from a woman, from the birth." Therefore, the oldest surnames, Ji, Jiang, and Yao, are all associated with women.

In matrilineal societies, descendants of the same matrilineal line cannot intermarry, and in order to distinguish different marriage groups, surnames are given. Some of these major surnames are more than four thousand years old. With the continuous appearance of the same surname, in order to distinguish the status and origin of the family, the clan was produced, and the earliest clear record of the surname was from the Zhou Dynasty.

The original meaning of the clan is "branch" and "ambiguity", which is intended to distinguish the origin of the descendants, and the same surname can be divided into many different clans.

Surnames come from four main sources:

1. From the land and the surname, the Son of Heaven is the one who gives the surname. The Yellow Emperor created twelve surnames for his twenty-five sons. The Tao Tang clan was later enshrined in Liudi, and his descendants took Liu as their surname.

2. Take the place of birth as the surname. The Yellow Emperor was born in Shouqiu and grew up in Ji Shui, so he took Ji as his surname.

3. Take the title and official position as the surname. The young son of King Chuzhuang was a doctor of Shangguan, and his descendants took Shangguan as his clan.

4. Given a surname for a matter or other reason.

The origin and origin of the surname Ho are as follows:

The surname He comes from the surname Ji. The son of King Wu of Zhou was sealed in Han and destroyed the country. His descendant Han Wuzi (another theory is that Han Wuzi is a descendant of Uncle Qu Wohuan of the same clan of the Jin Dynasty, that is, after Zhou Chengwang's younger brother Ji Tang Shuyu) Shi Jin, sealed in Han Yuan, with the land as the clan.

Later, he was separated from Zhao and Wei and became princes. Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and the Han clan fled between the Jianghuai and Huai, because they changed their surname to He.

At present, the surname He generally accounts for more than 1 percent of the population of the southern provinces and autonomous regions, while it only accounts for about 0.5 percent of the population in the northern provinces and autonomous regions, and the three provinces with the highest concentration of population are Sichuan, Guangdong, and Hunan, accounting for about 44 percent of the population of the Han nationality in the country. The surname He is the seventeenth largest surname in China today, with a large population, accounting for about 1.2 percent of the country's Han population.

Surnames come from four main sources:

One is from the land and the surname, and the Son of Heaven is the one who gives the surname;

The second is to take the place of birth as the surname. The Yellow Emperor was born in Shouqiu and grew up in Ji Shui, so he took Ji as his surname.

The third is to take the title and official position as the surname. The young son of King Chuzhuang was a doctor of Shangguan, and his descendants took Shangguan as his clan.

Fourth, the surname is derived from things or other reasons.

The birth of surnames marks the transition from group marriage to blood marriage, and is an important milestone in the progress of human civilization. After the surname is generated, it is passed down from generation to generation and generally does not change, which is relatively stable, while the clan changes with the change of fiefdom and official position, so there will be several generations of a person's descendants or two generations of different clans of father and son. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, surnames have been combined.